On the flipside of sociopolitical dissent, Bruce Springsteen released a Trump-bashing protest song that’s being touted as a great fist in the sky – but you can’t hear it without cracking open your wallet (actually, you can’t do that either – the website hosting the song has crashed). Never mind all that talk of elitist lefties living in a bubble of exclusivity, Bruce is here to save the day, a dollar at a time. As long as you’ve got the cash. That shit is gross.

Portugal. The Man have released their own pre-rolled cannabis blend called Feel it Still, and that’s dankly badass.

Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood sampled Thom Yorke saying “shit” and pranked him with it onstage, looping it in real time.

A band of white people in Brooklyn called themselves Eskimeaux, and that doesn’t sit well with a real life Eskimo Inuit. “If you want to use the word Eskimo you had better be an Eskimo or I’ll eat your lunch,” she tweeted. They changed their name to O.

12 weird-ass things we learned about Princesince his death. And no, one of them is not how badly the new EP sucks ass.

Guy thinks he can “clean up” EDM and stop the drug deaths from an entire genre of music lovers who wantonly gulp down random pills and powders. The article is packed with misleading bullshit such as: “This doesn’t tell the full story, however, as the chemical in pure ecstasy, MDMA, only rarely causes death on its own; instead, factors such as overheating and dehydration are often contributing factors in rave settings.” Also, feel bad for the dude. “I feel like I’ve done so much good for so many people and it never gets reported.” Yeah, maybe because people are fucking dying at your shows, cool guy.

Johnny Firecloud's been kickin' names and takin' ass since his first interview in 2001 with A Perfect Circle, 6 years before starting AQ with Kevin Cogill. He also spent ten years as music editor/senior writer at CraveOnline.